The medieval cult of saints: for- mations and transformations[M]. Cambridge: Cam- bridge University press,1997.Abou-el-haj B.The medieval cult of saints:for-mations and transformations.1997Abou-el-haj,B. The medieval cult of saints:formations and transformations...
Relations between saints and secular rulers as presented in the Vitae of the Italo-Greek saints in Southern Italy in the tenth and eleventh centuries have been treated in terms of identity and difference, namely to measure the degree to which the Italo-Greeks identified themselves with the ...
Medieval thinkers divided a human lifetime into “ages.” Some had just four: Childhood, Youth, Maturity, and Old Age. Isadore of Seville (c. 560-636) expanded that to six: infancy (up to 7), childhood (7-14), adolescence (14-28), youth (28-50),gravitas(50-70), and, for anyth...
British must have been seriously crippled. He engaged, however, with only a part of his fleet in order to ensure the escape of a convoy, and then proceeded on his way. But four days later the British again caught him up before he was clear of the group of islands called The Saints. ...
statues of various Catholic saints stand on either side of the clock; “The Walk of the Apostles“, an hourly show of moving Apostle figures and other sculptures, notably a figure of a skeleton that represents Death, striking the time; and a calendar dial with medallions representing the month...
Erasmus' emphasis on peacemaking reflects a typical pre-occupation of medieval lay spirituality as historian John Bossy (as summarized by Eamon Duffy) puts it: "medieval Christianity had been fundamentally concerned with the creation and maintenance of peace in a violent world. "Christianity" in medi...
So, the Council isn’t calling us back to some medieval practice, those “horrible” medieval times, the “terrible” Middle Ages, when they knew so little about liturgy that all they could do was build a Chartres Cathedral. (When I see cathedrals and churches built that have a tenth of...
2.the beliefs and practices of Hindu adherents to the Tantras in place of the Vedas, especially magic rituals for healing, averting evil, and union with the female creative principle.— Tantrist,n.— Tantric,adj. See also:Hinduism
he was interested in building bridges between the major faiths of the subcontinent. About theKashf al-Mahjubhe said: “Among the books on tasawwuf (Sufism) not even one has been composed so well. He surpasses all the saints of India and no new saint can set foot in this land without fi...
The University of Padua – Università di Padova or UNIPD – was founded in 1222 (although some evidence puts it before this date) and is one of a number of medieval universities in Italy still operating. The Università di Padova is notable for its revolutionary early research in astronomy, ...